The TargetBC project is funded by the Clean Air Fund under its 'superpollutants' initiative focussing on black carbon, and is being implemented between May 2025 and May 2027

Project partners (U.Aarhus, Denmark; University of Leeds/UK Meteorological Office, UK; CICERO, Norway; NILU, Norway; University of Stockholm, Sweden; AMAP Secretariat)  and associated partners (Environment and Climate Change Canada and University of Montreal, Quebec)

Aim and main activities: The project work  involves performing fixed-SST and fully-coupled Earth System Model simulations, the results of which will be used to 'train' an emulator tool that can be used to investigate black carbon emissions reduction options to inform policy-making on climate responses. The (OpenSource) emulator development builds on a version applied in the AMAP 2021 SLCF assessment work, but with substantial improvements including the ability to run on the basis of emissions rather than air concentrations, and training the model using multi-model ESM results from four state-of-the-art ESMs. Nor-ESM, GISS, UKESM and CanESM). 

Additional project components include inverse modelling using the FLEXPART CTM and observational data to validate source-receptor relationships.

The regional focus of the work is on the Arctic with a wider/global application on emission sources in Europe and Asia (India and China).